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Session 7

In session 7, we examine linear thinking versus recapitulation and gain some tools for understanding the organizational structure of the book of Revelation. 

A Peculiar Organization of Thought (Structure)

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https://content.lessons.church/files/study/SOz6uTZJ5aS/bmbcXzeIE0Y/Revelation (Shane Wood) 2016.pdf?dt=1660155418849

In this series, Shane J. Wood, Ph.D. (New Testament faculty at Ozark Christian College) will help you think critically about the book of Revelation and read it for what the text says and not what you have always been told that it says. Shane hopes to simplify the book so that you can deliver a blessing to those who read it. 

Revelation

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1. An Unfamiliar Organization of Thoughts

2. Progression vs. Recapitulation
    - Western/American Minds (Progression)

        - We look at most things linearly.
        - This is how we come to the book of Revelation:

            - PROBLEM: John did not write the book of Revelation from a
western perspective.
    - Jewish Minds (Recapitulation)

        - A Jewish mind looks at things cyclically.
        - This is how John wrote the book of Revelation – cyclically.
3. Defining Recapitulation

    - The definition of recapitulation in literature is: the retelling of the same events
from a different perspective with a different purpose commonly involving
intensification.
4. The Structure of Revelation
    - Spiraling into smaller finitude
    - Examples of this type of cyclical progression:

        - The end of the world (Rev. 6:12-17; 11:15-18; 16:17-21; etc.)
        - THUS: Different interpretative keys need to be identified:

            - The seals, trumpets, and bowls.

                 - All are a Series of 7—Completion
                 - All come to the end of the world
                 - All have an interlude between the 6th and 7th element of
their series
             - Dialog/Narrative Interruptions

                 - Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9
            - Structural Interruption

                 - Introduction to the Unholy Trinity
                     - Characters

                         - Satan (Rev 12:3; cf. Rev 2:9, 10, 13; 3:9)
                         - 2 Beasts (Rev 13)
                     - Parody ministries with the Holy Trinity
                     - THE PEOPLE OF THE TRINITY’S:

                         - Babylon (Rev 14:8)
                         - The Church

                 - The Collapse of the Unholy Trinity


                      - [a] Dragon introduced (Rev 12)

                         - [b] Two Beasts introduced (Rev 13)
                             - [c] Babylon introduced (Rev 14)

                             - [c`] Babylon destroyed (Rev 17-18)
                          - [b`] Two Beasts destroyed (Rev 19)
                      - [a`] Dragon destroyed (Rev 20) 

Session 7: A Peculiar Organization of Thought (Structure)

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